Thursday, June 12, 2014
Only a year into Kevin Spacey’s regime at the helm of the Old Vic in 2005, the Evening Standard’s then chief theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh wrote a review of a play that Spacey…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2014
“New York, New York, a helluva town/ The Bronx is up, but the Battery’s down”, goes the Comden and Green lyric in On the Town. And to paraphrase it, “the Tonys, the T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, London: The great Irish dramatist Brian Friel has long had a special affinity with the Russian masters Chekhov and Turgenev. And director Lyndsey Turner has a particular pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Full casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Memphis, which begins performances Oct. 9 at the Shaftesbury Theatre prior to an official opening Oct. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway songwriting duo Kerrigan-Lowdermilk, who previously showcased their work in London in a weekend of concerts at the St. James Studio in February, are returning to the same addres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AM[SHARE]It was a shock yesterday to hear of the passing of Rik Mayall, at the age of just 56. Though he wasn’t a prolific stage actor, I’d seen him in the West End in two…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
Yesterday morning I went to the dress rehearsal for the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, and it was full of surprises. Then I flew home overnight to London as the awards were unfolding,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AM[SHARE]London's Tricycle Theatre has announced its fall season that will include Sam Shepard's True West, the British premiere of Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand and a Ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:50AM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2014
The British premiere production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, currently running at Ustinov Studio at Bath's Theatre Royal, is to transfer to London's Park Theatre, beginnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Ronan Keating, Irish pop singer-songwriter and musician who was an original member of the pop group Boyzone and has subsequently enjoyed a successful solo career, will join the West End cast…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]The West End transfer of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys to the Garrick Theatre, where it begins performances Oct. 4 prior to an official opening Oct. 20, is to newly feat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AM[SHARE]With effect from this week’s print edition of The Stage, you will see some significant changes to the reviews pages in this paper, and also to the reviews published online. Mostly this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2014
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures company will revive his production of the dance thriller The Car Man, loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen that premiered in 2000. It will launch a 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Cleo Higgins, former child star and finalist in the U.K.'s "The Voice" in 2013, where she was mentored by Will.i.am, is to make her West End stage debut in Thriller Live at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AM[SHARE]Sometimes a simple act of scheduling throws up an interesting coincidence. In my whirlwind catch-up of the current Broadway season, yesterday I saw two stage versions of literary works " Mos…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AM[SHARE]Will Tuckett's Royal Opera House production of The Wind in the Willows, which won this year's Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family Show, following a West End run at the Du…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Paul Miller, the incoming artistic director of London's Orange Tree Theatre — who takes over from the theatre's founder Sam Walters, who ran the theatre for 42 years — ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Broadway never ceases to surprise me: how on earth did an edgy musical about a post-operative transsexual (whose operation was botched) that originated off-Broadway back in 1998 return now a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
The Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little is to be revived at London's St. James Theatre Studio in a new production that begins performances July 29 prior to an official opening July 31, for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AM[SHARE]Initial casting has been announced for a new U.K. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which will begin performances July 23 at Windsors' Theatre Royal for a run through…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: It may be a bit surprising to be celebrating the music and musicals of a composer/lyricist who is virtually unknown on this side of the pond, apart from a b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre, London: This marathon theatre event, stretching across eight and a half hours in all, comprises four Simon Gray plays that tell the story of the same four principal charac…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM[SHARE]A couple of years ago Hampstead Theatre produced a stage version of Chariots of Fire that saw the theatre turned into a giant running track. But on Saturday audiences who signed up for the e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
Michael Flatley is to return to the London stage to star in a season of Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, a new version of a show he first created in 1996 that originally premiered at Dubl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:05AM[SHARE]White Christmas, a stage version of the 1954 Irving Berlin film musical of the same name which was previously produced on Broadway across two consecutive Christmas seasons at the Marquis The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
Tickets are not yet on sale for the 2015 production of Hamlet at London's Barbican Theatre that will star Benedict Cumberbatch, but the venue has already stated that "as we want to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[SHARE]The cast has been announced for a new U.K. tour of the Olivier Award-winning musical Top Hat, which begins performances at London's New Wimbledon Theatre Aug. 12 for a run through Aug. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AM[SHARE]No, this isn’t a weather report, though whenever I go to the Open Air Theatre or Shakespeare’s Globe, I somehow become obsessive about them. At least at Shakespeare’s Globe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM[SHARE]Hampstead Downstairs, London: This potent, profound and poignant meditation on guilt and the redeeming power of forgiveness, based on a true story from South Africa, examines attempts to com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company will join forces with English Touring Theatre for the first time to launch a U.K. tour of its 2013 Stratford-upon-Avon production of A Mad World My Masters, a p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
There are two headlines on The Stage website today that grabbed my attention, and prove the financial extremes of this business we called show. On the one hand, business on Broadway is boomi…
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